Civics and citizenship

It is said that movies have encroached upon social realities creating tourism enclaves based on distortions of history and heritage, or simulations that disregard both.

This is the first study to bring space into conversation with religious competition, conflict and violence in the contemporary world.

How does religion maintain or challenge discourses on national identity?

This book demonstrates the spatialized and multi-scalar nature of Islamophobia.

In the aftermath of the Seven Years' War, when a variety of conquered and ceded territories became part of an expanding British Empire, crucial struggles emerged about what it meant to be a "e;British subject.

The challenge of life and literary narrative is the central and perennial mystery of how people encounter, manage, and inhabit a self and a world of their own - and others' - creations.

An inspiring memoir from a legendary activist and political prisoner that “reminds us of the sheer joy that comes from resisting civic wrongs” (Truthout).

The current legal and political context is perhaps more congenial than ever before to considering claims made by minorities for the protection of some aspect of their identity.

Advances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics.

Illustrates the importance of corporate responsibility by integrating wealth creation and human rights.

Scholars have long examined the relationship between nation-states and their "e;internal others,"e; such as immigrants and ethnoracial minorities.

This book studies how marginality impacts the everyday lives of Indian Muslims.

A pathbreaking contribution to Latin American testimonial literature, When a Flower Is Reborn is activist Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalef's chronicle of her leadership within the Mapuche indigenous rights movement in Chile.

Dieser Sammelband betrachtet das Thema Diskriminierung aus der Sicht einer diskriminierungskritischen politischen Bildung und versammelt eine Vielfalt an Themen sowie fachwissenschaftlichen und fachdidaktischen Perspektiven.

This book examines the potential role of European Union law in combating poverty and social exclusion in the European Union.

Salafism, comprised of fundamentalist Islamic movements whose adherents consider themselves the only saved sect of Islam, has been little studied, remains shrouded in misconceptions, and has provoked new interest as Salafists have recently staked a claim to power in some Arab states while spearheading battles against infidel Arab regimes during recent rebellions in the Arab world.

Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship.

This book examines the projection of soft and sharp powers through the Turkish civilizational populist TV series "e;Resurrection: Ertugrul"e; and its reception in Pakistan.

Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

This book explores how governments in multi-level states coordinate immigrant integration policies.

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The far right is on the rise across Europe, pushing a battle scenario in which Islam clashes with Christianity as much as Christianity clashes with Islam.

A counterbalance to the predominant study of Islam's role in social and political struggles, this book examines life in Ede, south-west Nigeria, offering important analyses of religious co-existence.

Was ist los mit der Welt?

Citizen Journalism as Conceptual Practice provides a conceptualization of citizen journalism as a political practice developed through analyses of an historical and postcolonial case.

This book investigates how artificial intelligence might influence our political practices and ideas, and how we should respond.

The fully updated third edition of "e;Farewell, My Nation"e; considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.

The bestselling author and activist “has delivered another impressive argument that the U.

Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the parameters that Global North governments and international humanitarian organizations use to classify most displaced families-more than 99% globally-as ineligible for resettlement, and often as fraudulent.

Privacy today is much debated as an individual's right against real or feared intrusions by the state, as exemplified by proposed identity cards and surveillance measures in the United Kingdom.

Welche Perspektive haben Schüler*innen mit Fluchterfahrung auf gesellschaftliche Probleme und wie können diese im Rahmen politischer Bildung mit den Jugendlichen bearbeitet werden?

DEMOKRATISCHER UND GERECHTER KLIMASCHUTZ?

Fourteen years since its establishment,the work of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights has not received the attention that should have been paid to its important contributions towards the promotion and protection of human rights in Africa.

This book is an introduction to right-wing populist movements outside the West, looking at four key case studies, their commonalities and differences.

The Labour Church was an organisation fundamental to the British socialist movement during the formative years of the Independent Labour Party (ILP) and Labour Party between 1891 and 1914.

This book argues that European citizenship is transnational, a status that has emerged incrementally during the European integration process.

Violent crime has been rising sharply in many American cities after two decades of decline.

In Unruly Immigrants, Monisha Das Gupta explores the innovative strategies that South Asian feminist, queer, and labor organizations in the United States have developed to assert claims to rights for immigrants without the privileges or security of citizenship.

On May 17, 2010, four undocumented students occupied the Arizona office of Senator John McCain.

From the global geopolitical arena to the smart city, control over knowledgeparticularly over data and intellectual propertyhas become a key battleground for the exercise of economic and political power.

This is a book about the struggle of Orthodox Christianity to establish a clear identity and mission within modernity--Western modernity in particular.

This book makes a new and original contribution to the old debate about differences between socio-economic and civil and political rights, which has engaged human rights discourse over several decades.

Can activism be considered a leisure activity?

Western political theory has many great strengths but also a few weaknesses.

Named one of the Best Books of 2016 by The Economist  Winner of the 2016 Hugh M.

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia.

Many prominent and well-known figures greatly impacted the civil rights movement, but one of the most influential and unsung leaders of that period was Gloria Richardson.

The challenge of violence against women should be recognised as an issue for the state, citizenship and the whole community.